Woken sheeple: February 2005

Columbia U. Professor, Criticized for Views on Israel, Is Banned From Teacher-Training Program - Campus WatchRemember when this used to be a nation that valued freedom of speech? That freedom is gone. If you ask a question, or dare to criticize Israel, your career will be destroyed.

It is time to face up to who controls the government.

It is time to face up to who has destroyed our freedom of speech.

It is time to face up to who has brought dictatorship to America.

ABC News: Family: Heart Attack Victim Moved for Michael Jackson

Church and State

14 Defining characteristics of fascism

BUSHFLASH

Lives more important than liberties says Blair

His defiant stance came after 32 Labour MPs took part in a Commons revolt against the plans for new powers, including a form of house arrest without trial.

EconomicsDaily.com: New Recruits Could Be Sent to Boot Camp Within Two Weeks of Passage of Draft Legislation

Deputies infiltrate family funeral in Lauderdale, arrest wrong man: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Fathers & Families Announces Opposition to Lt. Gov's Dog-collar Bill

Florida boy accused of assault with rubber band

A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber band, according to a WKMG Local 6 News report.

New York Daily News - Home - He's maced after asking cops to help dying dog

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Extent of US abuse cases revealed

Russian Soldier Held for Planting Bombs in Residential Areas - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

Adware maker joins federal privacy board | CNET News.com

The CDC is producing pandemic influenza to see how to fight it

US Abandons Unrealistic Goal of Military Victory in Iraq

Interesting that the original cite is the Los Angeles Times, but currently only the foreign newspapers are carrying it.

TheNewOrleansChannel.com - Money - President's Uncle Profits From Military Contractor's Stock Sale

Jewish settlers poison Palestinian village water supply

ABC News: U.S. Prepares to Test Bird Flu Vaccines

Yahoo! News - Pope Rushed to Hospital With Flu Relapse

If there is one guy that has an automatic in to Heaven, it's the Pope. So why is he working so hard to stay OUT?

Makes you wonder if he himself doesn't believe the myths he peddles.

:)

Boycott Israel, Christian group urges

The World Council of Churches has asked its 342-member denominations to consider divesting from companies that profit from Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

TheInsider.org - American dollar in crisis as currency falls hard and fast

Secret Tapes Show Bush's Concern Over Past

FEDERAL MURDER INC. TIED TO OKC TERROR BOMBING

The terror loosed in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, was created by criminals and murderers directed by and paid for by the federal government. This is the only conclusion that can be reached by a calm analysis of the facts.*

Home School Group Says Police Used Excessive Force

Some home schoolers say they were having a meeting in Simpsonville Park when an officer started bullying them.

News brief: Alanco steps up efforts to put RFID in prison - RFID (radio frequency identification), tracking technology, and RFID chipping daily news a

News brief: Alanco steps up efforts to put RFID in prison - RFID (radio frequency identification), tracking technology, and RFID chipping daily news and information - free, unbiased news for the executive, technologist, developer, vendor, and potential or current user of RFID applications.

Passenger detained, suitcase blown up after bomb comment

SAN DIEGO - A woman was detained in Arizona -- and her suitcase blown up at Lindbergh Field -- after she made a testy comment about a bomb while boarding an American West flight Thursday.
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The real priority for Bush - The Herald

Did US Military Kill Journalists in Iraq :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture

indymedia beirut | PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ | 19.02.2005 16:13

He said he "knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank (Dem) from Massachusetts who was on the panel with Jordan.

"When we hear this statement with the knowledge that 63 journalists have been killed in Iraq, in addition to the fact that in a 14-month-period, more journalists were killed in Iraq than during the entire Vietnam War, one begins to get the feeling that the military clampdown on the media is more than a myth or a conspiracy theory'', Baghdad correspondent Dahr Jamail wrote.

Britain: radio programme exposes corruption and theft in Iraq

IQ-Baghdad-Interrogators for Iraq

GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES

Niagara Falls Reporter Opinion

mcall.com - The strange story of White House reporter 'Jeff Gannon'

The Nashua Advocate: Conservative Bloggers Blow Gaskets; Panties Also Reported To Be in "Bunch"

The Nashua Advocate: Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D

The Nashua Advocate: Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in 2004 Election

How objective journalism can fail to reveal the truth

When President George W. Bush came out with his 2006 budget recently, it received a lot of attention in the press.

Too bad that most of it missed the most obvious problem with it.

Wichita Eagle | 02/15/2005 | Public offered class on terror spotting

Negroponte, a Neo-Con? Shocking!!

You may remember, Senator, I posted a memo on the margin to you on April 27, 2004, when I learned that John Negroponte, the US Ambassador to the U.N., was nominated to be the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. I told you then that, from what I could see, he was a loyal agent of the megalomaniac neo-con Cabal to run the world, and we would regret putting him in charge of promoting "democracy" in Iraq. He was actually "placed" there not by President Bush, but by his real boss, Richard Perle, to promote a puppet government that would do the bidding of Perle and his Cabal (Cheney, Wolfie, Rummy, etc.) As I tried to explain to you back then, Senator, Negroponte came up through the bureaucratic ranks by doing exactly as he was told by the neo-cons, and now President Bush has been snookered yet again into doing the bidding of the Cabal. He has appointed Negroponte to be the Biggest Cheese of all in the National Intelligence Community, the CZAR of national intelligence!!!

Half of Russia’s Nuclear Materials Unaccounted for — U.S. Senator

Half of Russia’s nuclear materials are unaccounted for, a U.S. senator has said, citing classified intelligence and warning that the weapons could be used by terrorists plotting new attacks against the United States.

Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Set For June

Tsunami Uncovers Ancient City in India- IS THIS LINKED TO PROJECT BLUE BEAM?

First story click here.

Old bbc story here

Notice the dates on these two articles ? Very interesting indeed. This does sound a lot like project blue beam.

blue beam article

The Blue Beam Project, developed by NASA scientists, consists of 4 parts, 4 steps toward the implementation of the NWO religion with the Antichrist at its head.

First, earthquakes at certain precise locations of the planet will result in new archaeological discoveries, revealing that all religions' basic doctrines have been misunderstood and misinterpreted.

Second, a gigantic Space Show with laser projections of multiple 3-dimensional holographic images worldwide, will appear to be the image of God, speaking in all languages.

Third, electronic telepathy involving ELF, VLF, and LF waves will reach people by the inside of their brains, interlacing and interweaving with the natural thinking to form diffused artificial thought and making each one to believe that God is speaking to them from within their own souls.

Fourth, electronic universal "supernatural" manifestation designed to deceive will create the following illusion: make mankind believe an alien invasion is imminent, make Christians believe a rapture is imminent and the aliens have come to rescue them, and convince all that global satanic supernatural forces and manifestations penetrating worldwide - able to travel through optical fiber, coaxial cable, electric and phone lines - are everywhere and inescapable.

you heard it from woken sheep first.

He sees hidden signs: Occult clues in canada

What if a well-known Winnipeg landmark was really an architectural talisman, built to the specifications of the same "divine blueprints" found in ancient temples? Not buying it? Read on.

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Lost city found off Indian coast

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sidney Blumenthal: A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute

Madrid's Towering Inferno & The 9/11 Building Collapse Cover-Up

Pretoria News - Kidney trade probe moves to Israel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sharon's son charged in corruption case

Telegraph | News | 'America would back Israel attack on Iran'

U.S. may use a proxy to attack Iran- Mahathir -

Gone... But Not Forgotten

Protester Throws Shoe at Richard Perle

AlterNet: Screw the Children

portland imc - 2005.02.18 - Direct Deception Dollar Action at A Store Near You

WorldNetDaily: Penn prof says views may get him fired

Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Bishops: New Sex Abuse Claims Top 1,000

Telegraph | News | Pentagon prepares to build �70bn robot army

"Let the few control the many" they always say. sound perfect for when the soldiers dont want to fight anymore.: "Pentagon prepares to build �70bn robot army"

Yahoo! News - Tsunami Uncovers Ancient City in India

Do a google search on project blue beam. I dare you.

TheDeal.com - Carlyle doubles return to investors

Madrid to dismantle fire-gutted skyscraper - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Top Army recruiter: Draft wouldn't help

www.delawareonline.com � The News Journal � LOCAL � Experts see military draft as inevitable

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Abuse of Iraqi prisoners an exercise in fun, prosecution says

2/18/2005 Nation’s largest newspapers play down a thousand pages of evidence of new torture

The Washington Post, apparently jaded by month after month of reports of torture of Iraq, Afghan, and prisoners held by Americans in various other countries, relegated a thousand pages of new torture documents to page A-16 of Friday’s paper. That story, by R. Jeffrey Smith, is excerpted here.

Yahoo! News - AP: Iraqi Died While Hung From Wrists

SAN DIEGO - An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA (news - web sites) interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture — suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US releases new abuse allegations

nbc4i.com - News - New Law Will Expand DNA Database

VOA News - Bush: Israeli Apprehension Over Iran Justified

President Bush says Israel has reason to fear Iran, and that the United States remains committed to ensuring Israel's security.

Israeli Legislators Approve $870 Million for Settlers Who Quit Gaza

So, Israelis who stole their land (the Palestinians displaced by the illegal settlements were never paid for their lands) will be "compensated" for the loss of the lands they shouldn't have been on in the first place? I wonder who Israel expects to get the $870 million from?

Who is "Jeff Gannon?"

It is quite obvious who "Jeff Gannon" is, he is an artificial construct of the modern, corporate media talking head. Of the (mostly) young and beautiful "news" reciters who greet America every night with plastic smiles, perpetually recycled humor, and "insightfully" insipid commentary, they ARE ALL Jeff Gannons.

Brit Hume Must Resign | Oliver Willis

Brit Hume is the anchor of Fox News Channel's prime time news report, Special Report with Brit Hume, and he makes things up. On February 3rd, Hume intentionally manipulated the words of the 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to make it appear as if FDR supported privatization of social security. This is a brazen falsehood. President Roosevelt's grandson, James Roosevelt Jr., describes Hume's journalistic malfeasance as an "an outrageous distortion". We agree. (read more)

TheStar.com - Iran, Syria vow `united front'

California exploring proposal to tax drivers by the mile, not by the gallon

KESQ NewsChannel 3 Palm Springs, CA: California exploring proposal to tax drivers by the mile, not by the gallon

Man 'blinded at Guantanamo

A British resident has been blinded in one eye by American military police at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyer claimed today.

WorldNetDaily: Shrink punished for 'new world order' talk

Senate Passes Bill Allowing More Time to Declassify Nazi War Crime Papers - from TBO.com

CIA, FBI Warn of New Attack on US

The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have warned that terrorists are gearing up for a new attack.

At a US Senate Intelligence Committee session, CIA Director Porter Goss said that the Iraq War provided terrorists with opportunities to gain experience and connections. FBI Director Robert Mueller voiced his concerns that a terrorist cell in the US could wait on stand-by for years before attacking. )

British nuclear plant 'loses' plutonium

Can you say dirty bomb? I smell another 911 coming, How about you?

Liberal’ Media Silent About Guckert Saga

Proof that "the liberal media" is but a figment of right-wing mythology has now arrived in the person of one James Guckert, formerly known as Jeff Gannon. Were the American media truly liberal—or merely unafraid to be called liberal—the saga of Mr. Guckert’s short, strange, quasi-journalistic career would be resounding across the airwaves.

Gannon appeared in White House briefing room before he joined conservative website

The conservative reporter-prostitute writing under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon appeared in the White House briefing room before his known media outlet was even created, progressive bloggers have found.

ABC News: Bush Picks Negroponte as Intel Director

Iraq: Negroponte's parallel CIA :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq

ABC News: Bush Picks Negroponte as Intel Director

Iraq vets speak: Live one-hour webcast

Guerrilla News Network

Bush Administration to Renew Nuke Bomb Testing

Yay sounds like fun!

Physicians and General Public Favor Mandatory HIV Testing

Sounds like a good way to build a D.N.A. database.

Judge warns Rumsfeld in anthrax case - (United Press International)

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Words Mainstream Television Is Afraid To Say

How dare some say, 'Support our troops'?

Summary:

The author explains why he doesn’t tell many people that his son is going to be deployed to Iraq. The reasons include the out of pocket purchase of Kevlar armor for soldiers being deployed (when there supposedly was a shortage), soldiers having to install their own armor on Humvees, long waits for veterans trying to get into the VA hospitals and no justification for starting and continuing Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Support the troops by demanding answers to hard questions and support the troops by bringing them home now.
[Posted By Ted]k

Balancing the Budget- Again!

Summary:

In 1981, when he took office, Ronald Reagan inherited a national debt of $930 billion, and a budget deficit of $74 billion. His first budget was worse, at $79 billion, and in two short years, by 1982, that deficit had increased to $208 billion dollars. When George Herbert Walker Bush left office in 1992, the debt had climbed by over four times to $4 trillion, and the budget deficit for fiscal 1992 had climbed to a record $290 billion.

Bill Clinton turned that around, posting surpluses beginning in 1998, and culminating in 2000 in a record $233 billion dollar surplus. The national debt on Clinton’s watch rose to $5.7 trillion, but the public debt (which is the total outstanding amount of long-term debt held by entities outside the US government) declined from $3.8 trillion to $3.3 trillion.

The rise in total debt was due to the government borrowing from itself- a practice which was started in 1985 by James Baker under Reagan. The money to do this was primarily borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund. This is called “intragovernmental debt.” But since George W. Bush took office, the total debt has risen from the $5.7 trillion that Clinton left to $7.6 trillion, the public debt has risen from the $3.3 trillion Clinton left to $4.4 trillion, and the intergovernmental debt has climbed from the $2.2 trillion Clinton left to $3.2 trillion. So $1.1 trillion has been borrowed from public sources- and by the way, over 75% of that has come from outside the US- and Social Security has been raided for $1 trillion as well.

So what is George W. Bush trying to accomplish, and what were his father and Ronald Reagan trying to accomplish?

Note the raiding of the Social Security Trust Fund. Note also that during every year of Reagan’s presidency, and every year of Bush’s presidency, and every year of Shrub’s presidency, spending on social programs declined and you will begin to see what they are doing. They are trying to spend the US into a hole so deep that we cannot afford to spend money on helping the poor- because they want two things: a pliant workforce that will do as the “captains of industry” wish, and a pliant populace that will do as the government wishes. In order to accomplish this, they are selling debt instruments to the rich- transferring money that we all have paid in taxes, both FICA and FIT, to the rich, in order to take our power away and give it to their cronies.

This is their plan, and they have been at it since 1980. Clinton was a hiatus- he reduced public debt, and had Gore been elected, he would no doubt have moved forward to reduce the intragovernmental debt as well- but the US population was convinced that a crash was inevitable, and the stock market was raided for $7 trillion to add to the $1.1 trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund, and an additional $1 trillion was sold to them from the US to add to their ill-gotten gains. And whose money came out of the stock market? That’s right- people were investing for their retirement; not rich people, but people from the middle class.

Who do you suppose got all that money from the stock market and the Social Security Trust Fund and the federal budget? That’s right- the rich! They bought US Treasury Bonds!

To top all of this off, the next target is the housing market. With the Social Security Trust Fund raided, and the stock market raided, where is the rest of the US middle class’ money? That’s right- in their houses! Watch it happen. You heard it here first.
[Posted By Schneibster]
By Jonathan Weisman and Peter Baker
Republished from The Washington Post

The US Stands Accused of Kidnapping

Summary:

The father of four claims he was kidnapped by United States agents one year ago in Macedonia, carted off to a prison in Afghanistan, and accused of being an al-Qaida terrorist. Government officials in Germany are concerned: The explosive topic shouldn’t, under any circumstances, harm trans-Atlantic relations now that there has been, with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Europe last week, the first noticeable sign of rapprochement between Germany and the US since the Iraq conflict.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

Iraq Vets Say Services, Compassion Lacking

Summary:

Paul Rieckhoff, who founded the group Operation Truth shortly after returning from Iraq a year ago, said he started it when he realized that “most of the American people were not getting the whole picture.”
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

Summary:

The last hope for the POWs rests with the Supreme Court. Their lawyers petitioned the high court last month to hear the case. Significantly, it has been renamed Acree vs. Iraq and the United States. The POWs say the justices should decide the “important and recurring question [of] whether U.S. citizens who are victims of state-sponsored terrorism [may] seek redress against terrorist states in federal court.” This week, Justice Department lawyers are expected to file a brief urging the court to turn away the appeal.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever

Summary:

While immortality is unlikely through nanobot techniques, extended lifespan- we’re talking hundreds of years, and not as a doddering wreck- is well within the capabilities of such technology. The inventor of the first synthesizer that was capable of playing sampled sounds, Ray Kurzweil, who is also a technology author, believes that at least major extension- say, to 150 years- should be available within 20 years from now.

Kurzweil is on a very strict diet, and follows a very strict exercise regimen. He is a diabetic, but controls his disease through diet and exercise. I have to confess that my father thinks he might make it too. He certainly shows every sign of making 100 without straining himself much.

Kinda puts a whole new spin on population control, doesn’t it?
[Posted By Schneibster]

Secret US nuclear weapons: targets on bases in Europe - CMAQ

UK Hospital RFID-tags patients to avoid litigation

Bush Wants 'Patriot Act' Extended

Off Duty U.S. Customs officer shoots unarmed 19-year old Arab-American in head and face. Authorities state that officer committed no wrong-doing and d

This incident happened about 15 minutes from my house in the Madrid apartment complex in Mission Viejo, CA on Feb 5, 2005.

CNN.com - Blast reported�in southern Iran - Feb 16, 2005

The Globe and Mail: Blast reported near Iranian nuclear plant

Unknown plane fires missile at Iran’s nuclear reactor – Report

An unknown plane fired a missile in a remote area near the southern Iranian city of Dailam in the province of Bushehr where Iran’s nuclear reactor is located, Iranian state television said on Wednesday.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran to aid Syria against threats

Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever

Summary:

While immortality is unlikely through nanobot techniques, extended lifespan- we’re talking hundreds of years, and not as a doddering wreck- is well within the capabilities of such technology. The inventor of the first synthesizer that was capable of playing sampled sounds, Ray Kurzweil, who is also a technology author, believes that at least major extension- say, to 150 years- should be available within 20 years from now.

Kurzweil is on a very strict diet, and follows a very strict exercise regimen. He is a diabetic, but controls his disease through diet and exercise. I have to confess that my father thinks he might make it too. He certainly shows every sign of making 100 without straining himself much.

Kinda puts a whole new spin on population control, doesn’t it?
[Posted By Schneibster]

The Anti-Zionist Death Ray: a public service announcement : SF Bay Area Indymedia

Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever

Summary:

While immortality is unlikely through nanobot techniques, extended lifespan- we’re talking hundreds of years, and not as a doddering wreck- is well within the capabilities of such technology. The inventor of the first synthesizer that was capable of playing sampled sounds, Ray Kurzweil, who is also a technology author, believes that at least major extension- say, to 150 years- should be available within 20 years from now.

Kurzweil is on a very strict diet, and follows a very strict exercise regimen. He is a diabetic, but controls his disease through diet and exercise. I have to confess that my father thinks he might make it too. He certainly shows every sign of making 100 without straining himself much.

Kinda puts a whole new spin on population control, doesn’t it?
[Posted By Schneibster]

Gov. radiation test's on mentally hadicapped children in the 50's

CBS News | A Dark Chapter In Medical History | February 10, 2005�01:13:24

Wing TV - Connect The Dots

Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down

CNN.com - Lasers warn pilots of restricted airspace - Feb 11, 2005

So let me get this straight, when some guy does this with a little laser they want to try him as a terrorist! But now the gov. Wants to engulf the plane in a laser beam and its ok?!

FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel fears Jewish terror

So now people that oppose Sharon are terrorist's? Sounds kind of familiar doent it?

CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea!

Two stories posted in the last week on the CNN website, one on nukes in Iran last Wednesday, and another on nukes in North Korea on Saturday, both use the same aerial photograph of the same purported nuclear power plant!

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Bob Herbert: Congress, courts should halt evil at Guantanamo Bay

Israel and/or America Implicated in Killing of Rafik Harriri

It was almost too obvious how the US mainstream media was trying to frame Syria for it all last night.

ISRAEL TO CARRY OUT ASSASSINATIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES

A reminder that Israel openly admitted the intention to murder people around the globe.

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Kerry calls for 40,000 new troops, more help for military families

More proof that the US Voter did not really have a choice last November. Both candidates were for more war.

Israel Plans New W.Bank Settlement After Gaza Exit

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has plans to build a new settlement in the West Bank that could take in settlers uprooted from Gaza, officials said Tuesday, drawing protest from Palestinians who fear losing land for a state they seek.

Wired News: Altered HIV Attacks Mice Tumors

Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice.

Frontline - ID Systems and Unisys to Implement RFID Project for U.S. Postal Service

Frontline - ID Systems and Unisys to Implement RFID Project for U.S. Postal Service: "Feb. 14, 2005 -- Unisys Corp. has received a subcontract to support prime contractor I.D. Systems Inc. with wireless tracking of United Stated Postal Service (USPS) vehicles. I.D. Systems recently announced it had been awarded the USPS contract to implement its Wireless Asset Net industrial equipment tracking and management systems at postal facilities nationwide."

Clinton showers praise on UN

MUNICH, Feb. 13 - Making her first appearance before the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton played it safe and cool.

Annan raises calls for overhaul of world security system and a "New World Order"

MUNICH, Germany (AP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed Sunday for Europe and the United States to back a major overhaul of global security measures used to combat terrorism, to keep weapons of mass destruction from spreading and quell regional conflicts.

New U.S. Scandle, New Dahmer Buffet

The scandals hitting the US army one after the other are not easy to forget at all. After the big scandal of Abu Ghrieb Prison pictures that showed the army of miracles and liberations torturing detainees in the worst systematic way anyone can imagine, now we have a new set of pictures published by US soldiers in Iraq.
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New AIDS Super Bug

Summary:

This new virus brings on the full-blown AIDS symptoms within two to three months after the HIV invection. This is so alarming because the current AIDS virus can take up to nine or ten years to bring on the full AIDS symptoms.

One of the interesting items in this story is that the man who contracted this new strain was a crystal meth user. Time will tell if the meth had any effect on his contracting this particular strain of AIDS.
[Posted By BoomBoom]

THE FAA KNEW! But were they set up? Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:13:12 -0600

Summary:

When you read the Associated Press, or New York Times, or any other mainstream account of how the FAA failed our country on 9/11, ask yourself why none of this is mentioned in those reports. Ask yourself why the executive branch cleared Ptech software of being a threat to national security on the very same day the FBI first raided their offices. Ask yourself why Ptech software is still in the Whitehouse. And ask yourself whose interests the Bush administration really serves.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

Lies Cloud Medical Marijuana Debate

Summary:

While seriously ill patients nationwide nervously await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling
concerning the use of medical marijuana, Illinois State lawmaker Larry McKeon is in the midst of introducing a bill to join 12 other states that have already passed medical marijuana laws protecting a patient’s right to use cannabis with a doctors recommendation.

Coincidently, former White House deputy drug czar Dr. Andrea Barthwell is touring Illinois, giving lectures and spreading lies on the dangers of marijuana in hopes of defeating McKeon’s bill.
Rep. McKeon, who is living with AIDS, sounds off on Barthwell’s tactics – in his own words.
[Posted By Namaste_Rich]: "Lies Cloud Medical Marijuana Debate"

Worry Spreads Over GI Drug Side Effects

Summary:

In GNN’s new book, True Lies, we examine the troubling case of Lariam, an anti-malaria drug known to cause psychotic reactions. Until recently, U.S. soldiers in Iraq had been forced to take it, even though, as we first reported, the threat of malaria is minimal in Iraq. Under pressure from doctors and soldiers, the Pentagon has stopped giving out the pill. No soldier has reported contracting malaria since.
[Posted By anthony]

US to slap tourists with RFID - silicon.com

: Bush Administration Blocked The Public Release Of A New 9/11 Report For More Than Five Months

Bush Administration Blocked The Public Release Of A New 9/11 Report For More Than Five Months

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Forget North Korea. Look Who Really Has The Nuclear Weapons Of Mass Destruction!

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Antenna Products Corporation Awarded HAARP Contract

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: U.S. Drones Invading Sovereign Iranian Airspace

RedNova News - Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

About a third of the way down they call it the collective mind project: "Put it this way - we haven't yet got a machine we could sell to the CIA.'"

Chavez: US is a terrorist state

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has branded the United States a terrorist state while rejecting Washington's criticism of Caracas for its arms purchase from Russia.

Castro Warns Of Venezuela Plot

(AP) Fidel Castro warned that the life of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in danger, and said he would blame the United States if his close friend and ally is killed.

Why is everyone mad at the mainstream media?

Just before last fall’s Presidential election, Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Times, and Philip Taubman, the paper’s Washington bureau chief, went on the road to inspect the candidates’ campaigns.

A Domestic Enemy Of The United States:

I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.

Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified

Summary:

Last week, the National Security Archive, a DC-based non-profit organization, posted controversial January 25, 2001 memo from counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke to national security advisor Condoleezza Rice. The memo has been widely discussed, but has been previously unavailable to the public and press. Clarke’s memo was central to debates in the 9/11 hearings. Clarke insisted it was a serious warning of the Qaeda threat and offered a detailed plan to disrupt its operations. Rice claimed it wasn’t a plan, but merely some notes.
[Posted By anthony]

No optimism as far as the Darfur conflictual dynamics are concerned

Summary:

This long article shows how despite its absence from the news the situation in Darfur is not improving. The article highlights an estimated 340,000 dead and large numbers of people needing aid, as well as inadequate aid coming in.
[Posted By TylerDurden]

ASSASSINATED: Amazon rainforest campaigner Dorothy Stang shot to death

Summary:

Lifelong anti-logging and human rights campaigner Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated today in the Amazon-region town of Anupu, Brazil with two people believed to be in custody over the murder. Loggers in the area had previously accused the nun of ‘inciting violence’, a claim her family rejected.
[Posted By faelnarr]

Europe: Anarchists plot anti-G8 action

Summary:

A large protest march has been planned for Edinburgh for July 2 – the eve of the conference. Early estimates put the numbers for the Edinburgh march at 100,000 to 150,000, but police officers believe that may rise to 200,000. On a website about the ‘anti-G8’ gathering, the organisers say: “The 2005 G8 summit will take place in the Scottish town of Gleneagles, about 70km north of Edinburgh. It will not be allowed to go ahead without challenge.”
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

HAARP To Install 516 More Antennas

Note - That's over and above the 132 that were just installed last year. And that's over and above the original 48 antennas that were perfectly adequate to fry the earth many times over.: "516 More Antennas"

USATODAY.com - House passes bill that would tighten driver's license rules

WASHINGTON — Legislation meant to make it harder for terrorists to operate in the USA won approval in the House of Representatives on Thursday.

HR 418: A National ID Bill Masquerading as Immigration Reform - by Ron Paul

I rise in strong opposition to HR 418, the REAL ID Act. This bill purports to make us safer from terrorists who may sneak into the United States, and from other illegal immigrants. While I agree that these issues are of vital importance, this bill will do very little to make us more secure. It will not address our real vulnerabilities. It will, however, make us much less free. In reality, this bill is a Trojan horse. It pretends to offer desperately needed border control in order to stampede Americans into sacrificing what is uniquely American: our constitutionally protected liberty.

What is wrong with this bill?

Telegraph | News | US civil rights lawyer 'aided terrorism'

An American civil rights lawyer is facing 20 years in prison after being found guilty of aiding terrorism by smuggling messages out of jail for a client.

Travel ban on four released from Guantanamo based on evidence alleged to be gathered under torture

The government has decided that four Britons released from Guantánamo Bay pose a terrorist threat to the United Kingdom, on the basis of evidence alleged to have come from the men's torture and ill-treatment, the Guardian has learned.

Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Police plan tightest-ever security for Gleneagles G8 summit

AN UNPRECEDENTED operation to secure Scotland’s ports, airports and roads will swing into action in July to prevent anarchist protesters reaching the G8 summit at Gleneagles, according to the policeman in charge of the security operation.

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Stewart Vows to Appeal Terror Conviction

NEW YORK — A veteran civil rights lawyer known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene has vowed to fight her conviction for smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients to his terrorist disciples.

MSNBC - Britain in the Dock

Harsh antiterrorism laws run afoul of time-honored traditions of liberty and human rights. Some warn of a new 'police state.'

Neo-Nazi demo overshadows Dresden memorial

The 60th anniversary of the Second World War Allied bombing of Dresden has been overshadowed by one of the largest public, post war gatherings of neo-Nazis.

Fears of collapse as fire ravages huge Madrid office block

(another instance highlighting the fact that a steel building has to burn for hours and hours to collapse - not 30 mins as on 9/11)

Dead-End for War Crimes Accusations: German Prosecutor Won't Pursue Rumsfeld Case - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Raed in the Middle

The Iraqi Jordanian borders were shut down again today, without any prior announcement.

This is the second time borders are sealed in the last two weeks. The first time was during the elections, but everyone knew about it at that time. There were many announcements before that closure.

The Secret is Out:

Imad Khadurri comments incisively on a recently released CIA "Intelligent" Intelligence Report on the Nature of the Insurgency in Iraq.

As Imad points out, with a touch of humor, these intelligent statements are still classified, but here are some "glimpses" and press reviews of this Top Secret Report, which have cost the US tax payer a few millions....

Yahoo! News - Results of Landmark Iraq Election Delayed

We decided to run the ballots through the dibold machine and see who won

US has more nuclear weapons in Europe than thought: report

So thats where they went

Ann Coulter Sticks Her Entire Leg in Her Mouth

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Laura Bush Conspiracy

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Contaminated Money

Russia, China Announce Partnership To Counter US

MercuryNews.com | 02/09/2005 | School first in state to track students with radio ID tags

BUSH: HOLDING THREE JOBS 'UNIQUELY AMERICAN'

Last Friday when promoting social security reform with 'regular' citizens in Omaha, Nebraska, President Bush walked into an awkward unscripted moment in which he stated that carrying three jobs at a time is 'uniquely American.'

Legislators ask Patriot Act limits

On Handcuffed and Felonious Children

What should have been a minor incident at an Ocala, Fla., elementary school has attracted national attention because of the school's response.

Store Wants ID for All Cigarettes, Alcohol

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Betty Ann Fischer has been old enough to buy liquor for more than 50 years. So the 71-year-old was a little surprised when a grocery store clerk asked her for ID before selling her a bottle of wine.

FindLaw's Writ - Colb: Big Brother in the Bathroom A Federal Court Puts the "Public" In "Public Restrooms"

Up to 480 U.S. Nuclear Arms in Europe, Private Study Says

Summary:

Thought when the Cold War ended we pulled our nukes out of Europe? Get ready to stop worrying and love the bomb all over again. According to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (Larry David’s wife’s thing), the U.S. has almost 500 nuclear warheads in Europe, and regularly conducts training missions to keep the troops ready to drop the bomb…
[Posted By anthony]

Hunger for Dictatorship

Summary:

Many liberals have been labeled as “anti-American” for noting the parallels between the rise of fascism and dictatorships throughout history and the current state of the U.S.

However there are some prominent conservatives who are seeing the same parallels according to the Feb 14 2005 issue of The American Conservative magazine.

Strike Iran and Risk Huge Backlash, Blix Warns US

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‘’The Arab world does not want Iran to move on (in the nuclear weapons direction) because they know if Tehran does, the chances of Israel moving away from nuclear weapons will be much less. If the Iranians are moving on, for sure the Israelis will continue on their path.’’ – Hans Blix, former U.N. chief weapons inspector. Also See: Cheney Says Israel Might ‘Act First’ on Iran & U.S.-Israel plan to strike Irans nuclear sites finalized.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

The New Boss

How many of us pay attention to unions? Not many. For the most part they have become bloated, corrupt and politically impotent. The new boss of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Andrew Stern is trying to change that. In an extensive and illuminating NYT Magazine article, an old classmate of mine Matt Bai explains how Stern is a man on a mission to create the global union for the 21st century…
[Posted By anthony]

Porn $$$ Helps Fund Right Wing Republicans

While the corporations generate millions in profits from providing adult content, their political contributions are often given to those elected, in no small part, because of their stance on “moral values.” Pornography has never needed much promoting, but it does need distributors. Conservative activists say Adelphia’s decision—and the rush of major America companies to profit from porn—is hypocrisy fueled by billions in corporate profits.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]

Just Keep Planting | 100777.com

Global Eye Criminal World | 100777.com

Privatizing Government

Berezovsky Claims Chechen Rebels Have A-bomb - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

Iran tells US nuclear sites cannot be destroyed

UK Edges Closer to Outlawing Religious 'Hate Speech' -- 02/07/2005

State to initiate animal identification program

State agriculture officials said they intend to roll out a voluntary animal identification program in two weeks which will eventually become federally mandated.

NBC 4 - News - Police Shoot 13-Year-Old Allegedly Joyriding In Stolen Car

Lib Dems sound civil liberties 'clarion call'

The Liberal Democrats launched a five-point plan today aimed at safeguarding the civil liberties of British citizens.

The party warned that a "climate of fear" about international terrorism should not lead to the passing of illiberal legislation that would harm the cause of freedom in the UK for years to come.

Coming Soon to a State Near You: A Police State

When you think of the following states - Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Maine, New Hampshire and South Carolina - what common denominator do you see? Conservative? Values voters? Except for Maine and perhaps Colorado, that's probably true. Liberty loving? Ruggedly individualistic? Weary of big government? Most of these states have significant segments of their populace who identify with these traits and concerns.

Elmira Becomes A Civil Liberties Safe Zone

Monday night the city of Elmira joined hundreds of communities across the country as a civil liberties safe zone. The city council unanimously approved the resolution that asks state lawmakers to evaluate any laws that would violate personal freedoms in response to the USA Patriot Act.

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Moroccans claim Guantanamo abuse

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Moroccans claim Guantanamo abuse: "

By Pascale Harter

BBC News, Rabat

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U.S. forces abuse and torture Kuwaiti prisoners -

Big Battles to Come

Summary:

British Columbia’s social situation has led it through some of the most serious class turmoil Canada has seen in recent years. The New Democratic Party, the party of the working class and the unions, has led workers to successes and disappointing failures in this province in the past. If the most recent social upheaval is to lead to concrete change for workers, the resurging popularity of this party makes the need for changes within it even more essential.

This article provides a look at the rising militancy of workers there as well as the situation of the party that the working class will inevitably look towards for energetic leadership in the coming battles, its strengths, its weaknesses, and what must be done to ensure it does not fail them again.

Get Your Eyes on the Prize

Summary:

Eyes on the Prize is the most important documentary ever made about the Civil Rights Movement—but copyright restrictions have kept it from the public for the past 10 years. This film is too important to lose. On February 8th help us bring it back to a nationwide audience: Find the film in a library and organize a screening in your city or town.

Bush's VA Budget Plan Angers Veterans Groups

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President Bush proposes total spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs of $71.3 billion. The increased budget comes, in part, by raising fees on some veterans. Veterans groups protested the fee hikes. “Any (fee) increase is going to be shifting the cost on the back of veterans,’’ said Dave Autry, Disabled American Veterans spokesman. `”Vets are owed a debt and the government has said they are eligible for health care. The government needs to pay for it. It’s a continuing cost of our national defense.’‘

Allawi out?

Summary:

“The Iraqis chose freedom” was the PR-spin after the Iraqi election went relativly smoothly. If you can call almost 50 people dead “smoothly” that is.
But the spinmeisters may be in for a surprise. As Robert Fisk already reported in an earlier article the Iraqis are “voting to rid Iraq of the Americans, not to legitimise their presence”. And now it appears, although it’s still to early to be conclusive, that the numbers are backing him up in that statement.
[Posted By BurningMonk]: "Allawi out?"

Bush to Seek $419.3 Billion for U.S. Defense-Officials

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush plans to ask Congress next week for $419.3 billion in U.S. defense spending for 2006, a 4 percent increase over the current $401 billion military budget, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

CBS News | Enron Schemes Caught On Tape | February 3, 2005�21:30:02

The new tapes — routinely recorded by Enron to protect their own deals and later obtained by this small utility in Washington state — confirm what CBS News has been reporting for four years: That Enron secretly shut power plants down so they could cause, and then cash in on, the crisis.
"We make money the old fashioned way. We screw it out of the people!"

New non-lethal weapon lets troops microwave hostile crowds

fThe United States has developed a non-lethal microwave weapon for use in Iraq.

We've Been WarnedThe state of our union:perpetual war- by Justin Raimondo

The State of the Union was, in many ways, a reiteration of the president's second inaugural address: the look on that chimpy little face as he repeated "the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world" was at once self-satisfied and defiant, as if he were telling Peggy Noonan, Mark Helprin, and all the other conservative skeptics to stuff it. Laced with explicit threats, pumped up with hubris, shameless in its exploitation of the American war dead, this speech was a warning to us all – get ready for more wars, more death, more neocon lies in the service of a foreign policy founded on madness.

G.I. D'oh

The good news about the solider kidnapped by Al Mujahedeen? He's recommended for ages 8-11.

The Drug Crisis by Harry Browne

Few people are aware that before World War I, a 9-year-old girl could walk into a drug store and buy heroin.

Yahoo! News - Iran's Supreme Leader Hits Back at Bush Speech

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Thursday hit back at President Bush (news - web sites)'s accusations against the Islamic state and said he would fail like his four predecessors to topple Tehran's clerical leadership.

US Invokes Secrets Privilege in Torture Lawsuit - by William Fisher

NEW YORK - The Justice Department has again asserted "state-secrets privilege" in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was detained in the United States in 2002 and sent against his will to Syria, where he says he was tortured until his release a year later.

Principal bans 'anti-military,' 'anti-American' materials - Wednesday, 02/02/05

A Cookeville (Tenn.) High School administrator said Veterans for Peace and a Quaker group can't come back into his school with materials considered ''anti-American'' and ''anti-military.''Wednesday, 02/02/05

Government keeping more secrets in name of national security

WASHINGTON - Federal agencies are using secrecy rules developed after the 9/11 attacks to hide embarrassing or controversial reports and data that the federal government once routinely made public.

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero With Strings Attached

St. Paul police add Tasers to school patrols

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=TASERS-02-02-05&cat=AN: " - There's something different about officer Julie Maidment this
week. She's still doing the same job, protecting St. Paul, Minn.,
Highland Park High School as its school resource officer. She's still
chatty and easy with a smile, more likely to talk kids away from
trouble than to punish them."